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Warden shorthand collection

Collection Description

Resource URI http://scone.strath.ac.uk/coln/1373
Property QName Value String Value URI Vocab ES QName
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dc:title Warden shorthand collection
dcterms:abstract A comprehensive collection of shorthand manuals from the 16th to the 20th century, mainly in English, but with c. 500 works in foreign languages, together with works of literature, sermons, reports of trials, etc. reproduced in shorthand. The collection contains c. 4,600 printed items comprising books, pamphlets and runs of periodicals, and 60 manuscripts. STC and Wing items include Timothy Bright's Characterie, an Arte of Shorte, Swifte and Secrete Writing by Character (1588), Samuel Botley's Maximum in Minimo (1674), William Hopkins' The Flying Pen-man (1674), and editions of Thomas Shelton's Tachygraphy and Tutor, Jeremiah Rich's The Pen's Dexterity Completed, and William Mason's Pen Pluck'd from an Eagle's Wing. A large section of the collection is devoted to the work of Sir Isaac Pitman and his successors, including books reprinted in Pitman's phonography or modifications of it.
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dcterms:extent 4600 printed items + 60 mss.
dc:language eng dcterms:ISO639-2
dc:type Collection of texts cld:CollType
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cld:accrualMethod Purchase cld:DCCDAccrualMethod
cld:accrualPolicy Closed cld:DCCDAccrualPolicy
dcterms:provenance The collection was formed by John Mabon Warden, of Edinburgh, Vice-President of the Esperantista Akademio, and presented to the Library in 1927.
dc:subject 653 dcterms:DDC
dc:subject Shorthand dcterms:LCSH
dc:subject Pitman, Sir Isaac (1813-1897) dcterms:LCSH
dc:subject value string (term) dcterms:UDC
dcterms:spatial value string (term) dcterms:TGN
dcterms:temporal value string gen:ISO8601
dcterms:created /1927 gen:ISO8601
cld:dateContentsCreated 1500/1927 gen:ISO8601
Relationships between Collections and Agents
dc:creator John Mabon Warden http://scone.strath.ac.uk/agnt/232 gen:Agent
marcrel:OWN National Library of Scotland http://scone.strath.ac.uk/agnt/1564 gen:Agent
Relationships between Collections, Locations and Services
gen:isLocatedAt National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh http://scone.strath.ac.uk/locn/1264 gen:Location
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Relationships between Collections
dcterms:hasPart value string http://valueURI/ dcmitype:Collection
dcterms:isPartOf National Library of Scotland main collection http://scone.strath.ac.uk/coln/25 dcmitype:Collection
dc:description National Library of Scotland general collections catalogue http://scone.strath.ac.uk/coln/26 dcmitype:Collection
dc:relation value string http://valueURI/ dcmitype:Collection
Relationships between Collection and Other Resources
dcterms:isReferencedBy value string http://valueURI/ dcmitype:Text

Administrative Metadata

Resource URI
Property QName Value String Value URI Vocab ES QName
dc:creator Gordon Dunsire http://www.cis.strath.ac.uk/people/biography/gordond/ gen:Agent
dcterms:modified value string dcterms:W3CDTF
dc:publisher Dublin Core Collection Description Working Group http://dublincore.org/groups/collections/ gen:Agent

Notes

Another typical special collection from the National Library of Scotland. Chosen to test interoperability with the Pitman collection example description.